not every black congregation s issue is that we don t want it to be. we re shamed. what we have done is we have taken a real life situation that is jermainegermane to every congregation in american and turned it into an issue. and folks don t deal with issues. they deal with people. one of the things we re trying to surface is how many of us as human beings are impacted by this system? whether it is as victims and, by the way, the new language is not victim, it is survivors. because if you re a survivor that means you made it through something. and so we re talking now about survivors. whether you re a survivor of a situation, or whether you are someone who has a son or a daughter who is actually in the system, because one of the things we don t talk about much is that 80% of all young black males who are incarcerated are also crime survivors. they don t think of themselves that way but the very institute who has done research and we have discovered that when you interview yo
you don t know what will happen, people in japan, talking about from tokyo to ferguson justice. you just never know what s going to happen. don t think you can t make a difference. you can make a difference young and old alike. there s a michael brown in every community in america. there is a tamir wright a trayvon, alicia thomas monroe bird. and the list can go on and on, in every community. you hear about black boys getting shot in the back we don t do anything with your position and stature. that will make somebody look a little further into the matter. if you just did anything and you hear people, thank god for the young people. i m here, the cap stone howard university. and i know c-span is covering this stuff i want to give zhu to way young man who said, i can make a difference. it was a howard law school student who called my office when trayvon we can t get nobody to cover it, i m out here saying, i m calling all my friends in the media michelle. they re like okay a l
in this case this is money that these families are earning and i am looking forward to a vibrant debate. i am glad the conservative movement has space for this kind of vibrant debate. i am a huge supporter of what everything reagan did. i also think we need to recognize the 21st century has some difficult in some significant differences in the era in which he governed. globalization israel real and we need to stay globally repetitive and recognize in the 21st century, families face challenges that were not there in the 20th. it would be difficult to do that in the 21st century because of what those jobs paid. eventually my father would have had to become an electrician or welder. my mother would have to become a dental hygienist or paralegal in order to live comfortable lifestyles. a great time. the last time the miami dolphins were in the super bowl was in the 1980 s. one of the things conservatives have been about is common sense and reform and this is a commonsense refor
children. we don t see them as our grand tchirn. but i guarantee you if you were to do an altar call as i will this sunday and ask for every parent and ever grandparent who has a child that s been impacted by the system, whether it s by a wrongful incarceration, wrongful arrest or whether an incarceration or an arrest, i guarantee you that between one third and one half of the congregation will come forward. this is our issue. i used to try to disance mibe up until i was incarcerated. i don t have one of those rags to riches things. no. i met jesus before i went. unlike those of you who have not sinned since you became religious. and i zranchinge the shame cool aid. i didn t know to know that i was in trouble. so i gave them a phony nick name, they call me doc. that was the only inmate attorneys that had a mono grammed jumpsuit. that took a while. and so it was ok for two weeks until a young man came up to me and he said, pastor. i said i don t know you. he said i used to p
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